Tavis Ormandy discovered that under specific microarchitectural circumstances, a vector register in 'Zen 2' CPUs may not be written to 0 correctly. This flaw allows an attacker to leak register contents across concurrent processes, hyper threads and virtualized guests. For details please refer to https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-v6wh-rxpg-cmm8 The initial microcode release by AMD only provides updates for second generation EPYC CPUs: Various Ryzen CPUs are also affected, but no updates are available yet. Fixes will be provided in a later update once they are released. For more specific details and target dates please refer to the AMD advisory at https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7008.html